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A. A. ANDERSON.

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No. 488,882. Pmentedot. 21, 1890. 2 25612- Nwe STATES ARTHUR A.ANDERSON, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

POCKET FOR FARE-CONVEYERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 438,832, dated October21, 1890.

Application filed March l1, 1890. Serial No. 343.565. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR A. ANDERSON, a'citizen of the United States,residing at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pockets for Fare-Conveyers, of which the following is a speciiication.

It has been a practice among dishonest drivers of that class ofstreet-cars which contain fare-conveyers, in which the passengersdeposit their own fares, to put slight obstructions in saidfare-conveyers, which during the trip would prevent the coin depositedin the conveyers from rolling down said conveyers intothe fare-box, andthen, at the end of the trip, after the passengers had left the car andduring the short interval which cars usually Wait before starting ontheir return trip, when they are left alone in the car, to extract thecoins from the conveyers by inserting down through the pocketsordinarily used a strip cut from the side of an envelope, or a piece ofpaper folded in a similar manner, with the pocket formed by said foldingslightly distended, and start the coins successively down the conveyerby means of a pencil, nail, or some similar implement, thus causing themto roll into said slightly-distended portion or pocket iu the strip ofenvelope or paper, byA

means of which said coins can thus be easily withdrawn through the mouthof the pocket to the fare-conveyer and taken possession of by saiddishonest drivers.

The object of my said invention is to prevent operat-ions of thischaracter by so constructing the pockets to the fareconveyers thatnothing can be inserted therein by which the coins can be withdrawn.

This invention will first be fully described, and then pointed out inthe claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, which are made a part hereof,and on which similar letters of reference indicate similar parts, Figurel is a front elevation of one of Iny improved fare-conveyer pockets,including an adjacent fragment of the conveyer and of the frame of thecar to which the pocket and conveyer are secured; Fig. 2, a centralvertical sectional view thereof on the dotted line 2 2 in Fig. l; Fig.3, an inside elevation of the several parts of which my improved pocketis composed; and Figs. 4 and 5, horizontal sectional views lookingdownwardly from the dotted lines 4f 4 and 5 5 in Fig. 1, respectively.

In said drawings, the portions marked A represent that portion of theframe of the car to which my improved pocket is secured; B, the rearportion of said pocket; C, the front portion thereof; D, a clip securedto the lower end thereof, which assists in holding the conveyer inplace, and E said conveyer.

The frame A is usually the portion extending up between the windows andserving also as the window-frame. The fastening of the pocket thereto iseffected by two screws a a', which pass through the upper and lower endsof the part B centrally into said frame A. As will be observed, thelower screw is covered by the clip D.

The rear portion B of the pocket is, generally speaking, quite similarto similar portions of the pockets already in use, except that it hasflanges Z) b extending out on its two sides to accommodate theserpentine character of the pathway provided for the com. smallprojections b2, which serve to bound the rear sides and ends of themouth slit or opening and also to engage with the upper ends of theiianges on the part C and keep said part at this point in the desiredrelation. It has projections h3 b4, which enter correspondingdepressions cs c4 on the part C, and further aid in securing said partin the desired relation. At its lower end it has small wings h5 b@ forthe purpose of properly secur ing the clip D thereto, as will bepresently explained.

The front portion O of the pocket, as shown most plainly in Fig. 3, hason its under side iianges c cwhich bound awell-deiined serpentinepathway from the mouth slit or opening to the lower end,where itdischarges into the conveyer or chute. The two extreme inner points ofthese iianges extend nearly to the center, one above the other, so thatany device which is inserted in the mouth of the-pocket will beprevented from passing to the botto-m unless it is of substantially thecharacter of a coin, and thus the practice hereinbefore described At itsupper end it preferably has l IOO is effectually prevented. The part Cis preferably secured to the part B by rivets c, as shown.

As will be observed by referring to the drawings, particularly Fig. 2,the passage between the parts B and C is a narrow one, in one directiononly substantially as wide as the thickness of a coin, while in theother direction it is as wide as the diameter of a coin, but isserpentine, as stated, so that the coin must travel in a devious pathfrom the mouth of the slot to where it is discharged into the chute. Itwill be further observed that no device of any considerable width whichis as long as the pocket can be made to reach said chute when insertedfrom the top on account of said serpentine construction.

The clip D is secured to the lower end of the part B by screws d, 'whichare inserted from the back side. The body of said part B being ofsubstantially the width of the frame portion A, to which it is secured,the wings b5 b project past said frame portion in front of thewindow-sash, and therefore the sash must be lowered when said screws dare inserted, and said screws must be inserted from the outside of thecar. As the head of the screw a', which secures the part B to the frame,is under this clip D, and as it would take considerable time to lowerthe windows, go to the outside of the cars, and remove these screws,besides bringing the person attempting such an operation outside the carinto full View from any point in the vicinity, the danger of anything ofthe sort being done is thus very much diminished.

Having thus fully described my said invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. A pocket for fare-conveyers in streetcars, having a serpentinepassage extending from the mouth slit or opening therein to saidconveyer, said passage being narrow or flat in the direction of thethickness of the coin and curved in the direction of the diameter of thecoin when passing through it, substantially as and for the purposes setforth.

2. The combination, with a fare-conveyer for street-cars, of a pockethaving a narrow flat serpentine passage extending from said conveyer tothe upper end and there terininating in a mouth slit or opening intowhich the fare may be inserted, substantially as shown and described.

The combination, in a pocket for fareconveyers for street-cars, of thepart B, having projections b3 b4, and a front portion having flangesforming the boundary of a serpentine passage and provided withcorresponding depressions e3 c4, whereby the two parts are held inproper relation, substantially as set forth.

4f. The combination,with a pocket for fare veyers for streetcars, of ascrew or screws passing through a portion of said pocket structure andentering the frame-work of the car and a clip secured to said portion byscrews extending in from the back side through Wings or projectionsextending over the window-sash, snbstantiall y as shown and described.

5. The combination of a pocket for fareeonveyers for Streetcars, havingwin gs or projections b5 b, a screw passing through a portion of saidpocket into the frame-work of the car between said wings, and a clipsecured to said wings by screws passing through said wings into saidclip from the back side, substantially as and for the purposes setforth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, atIndianapolis, Indiana, this 3d day of March, A. D. 1890.

ARTHUR A. ANDERSON. [L. s]

Witnesses:

CHESTER BRADFORD, E. XV. BRADFORD.

